, 1887-02-04
new YoRK,s INDUSTRIAL sc.4ooL.
Practical knowledge the General I,ira
OF tho nst~itatipn-NHi ss.n.

Practical knowledge the General Idza
Of tho Institafion-NHiS ssnn.
The new building Of tho lndrhlrial
Education association. Of this city, Is NOW.
in readiness TO lc SEN, and ,isitcrs will
le welcomed ut any time.
From top 10 bottom the building,
which is so feet Wild anl 100 feet deep.
has been %remod.led and Tiled with every
possible convenience for the training Of
young people in half Il half hundred
branches OF usefulness. For the cooking
clasi there are facilities for teaching a
class Of sixty girls at once; in the DEPART
mcnts devoted to sewing. drawing. mod
cling in clay, carpentering, kitchen
training. and all branches of domestic
service the machinery is simply superb.
and there is also a kindergarten for the
Youngest children not yet old enough to
learn any practically useful work. The
central idea OF the whole institution il
that the boy or girl does not obtain in the
public schools the practical knowledge
Necessary to make IA living; he or She
must get that more or less blunderingly
after school dayA urc ended. With the con
sequence that the boy who would have
made an excellent plumber becomes u
bad carpenter, aud the girl who would
have made "a comfortable living as u type
writer is condemned to mediocrity in
some shop.
This great work to which this veher-
able building is devoted il not in any
sense a charitable work, all the lessons
given there having 10 be paid for. but
neither IS il IA money making institution,
and the charges are simply sufficient to
cover the EXPENSES. For instance, cook
ing lessons cost ten cents IL lesson, which
pays for the material used in the lesson;
the children in the kindergarten pay so
cents n week; lessons in dressmaking,
domestic service, embroidery, may be had
at trining cost from the best of instruct
ors. The building has been opened only
n few weeks, and although the advan-
tagcs offered are scarcely known, pupils
are already iocking to its classes. Iii the
departments devoted to children the man
ayers wish TO impress upon parenta and
tho public that it h not in any sense II
charitable work, but an attempt to make
people understand that technical, manual
education is an essential factor to q boys
or n girls whole training; in other words.
it is the carrying out of the kindergarten
system beyond the kindergarten age; the
introduction of technical education in the
public schools of Boston and Chicago
proves to have been of very great value
to the children.
In some of our most noted private
schools for boys several hours Il day are
now devoted to manual training. the
boys working at carpenters beaches or
blacksmiths' FORCES, and soon developing
tastes which. when cultivated, may be of
the utmost value to them n few years
from now In the famous school found
ed by Felix Adler and supported by the
Society for Ethical Culture, of which lie
is the head, half the day is devoted TO
learning from books and half the day 10
learning how to do the worlds work. /
have seldom heard a more interesting
lesson than | Glanced to hear there one
day, cotton cloth being the subject of the
lesson. The boys were required to tel
where the cotton plant grew, how it WAS
picked, ginned, spun, woven and made
into garments; they knew the average
number Of bales produced in this country
aud il Egypt and India, and they were
made to explain upon IL miniature gin
and II miniature loom exactly how the
cotton in the fields came to make the
sliri4 on their backs. For the purposes
OF the lesson real cotton plants, with the
ripe hollis, were shown, together with
pictures of the fields, and the boy who
came out from the lecture upon cotton
cloth ilust have beer a very dull boy IN
deed ii he did not understand the sub
jcct. New York Cor. BROOKLYN Eagle.